Today’s Word from The Hindu
1. BEQUEST
- Meaning: Something given in will
- Synonym: Endowment, devisal
- Antonym: Divest, disown, dispossess
- Sentence:The fullness of delight in a garden is the bequest of a childhood spent in a garden.
2. GULLIBLE
- Meaning: Trusting
- Synonym: Naïve, credulous, innocent
- Antonym: Wary, sceptical,
- Sentence:Finding them, to all seeming, gullible and loquacious, she had even ventured on the Bishop.
3. WEARY
- Meaning: Tired
- Synonym: Exhausted, fatigued
- Antonym: refresh, energetic
- Sentence:But why go over this again, when myvery soul is weary of it all
4. NIGGARDLY
- Meaning: Close
- Synonym: Tight, mean, narrow
- Antonym: Generous, Far, open
- Sentence:William had many excellent qualities, but his long life of exile and hardship had made him niggardly and narrow.
5. BLITHE
- Meaning: Happy
- Synonym: Carefree, jaunty, joyful
- Antonym: depressed, worried, sad
- Sentence:She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.
6. CAPTIVATE
- Meaning: Attract, enchant
- Synonym: beguile, gratify, draw
- Antonym: Offend, pain, depress
- Sentence:He tried to captivate the ambitious fancy of the king.
7. DIALECTIC
- Meaning: Logical, rational
- Synonym: analytic, controversial, persuasive
- Antonym: illogical, irrational
- Sentence:With Hegel the absolute is itself a dialectic process which contains within itself a principle of progress from difference to difference and from unity to unity.
8. EFFICACY
- Meaning: Productiveness
- Synonym: adequacy, capability, capacity
- Antonym: inability, failure
- Sentence:Exactly the situation he would have prayed for had he believed in the efficacy of prayer.
9. MENAGE
- Meaning: Family
- Synonym: Ancestors, folk, kindred
- Antonym: parent
- Sentence:Three verses quoted by Menage are all we possess.
10. IMPERATIVE
- Meaning: Necessary
- Synonym: compulsory, critical, acute
- Antonym: free, insignificant, voluntary
- Sentence:It's imperative you see me at the earliest opportunity.
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